Why is John McCain having so much of a problem defeating Barack Hussein Obama?

Barack Hussein Obama has:
no executive experience
little governmental experience
He attended and admired the pastor of an openly racist Church and keeps injecting the charge of racism against those who oppose his views.
He associated with a known terrorist.
Is a member of the socialist party.
Has... show more Barack Hussein Obama has:

no executive experience

little governmental experience

He attended and admired the pastor of an openly racist Church and keeps injecting the charge of racism against those who oppose his views.

He associated with a known terrorist.

Is a member of the socialist party.

Has a negative view about America.

has unanswered questions about His Muslim past and education.

By this posing Obama should not even be in the race. I believe the problem is that the Republican party did not nominate a person that would give the nation an ideological choice instead of just another liberal with socialist leanings pretending to be a Conservative. Most Conservatives see right through that facade and many can not even hold their nose and vote for McCain. What do you think?

Update: Can no one give an intellectual answer to this question instead of just emotional reactions. This is a serious endeavor to elect a president but everyone seems to be supportive for emotional reasons alone. Whee is reason among potential voters?

Update 2: BTW- I am a Christian and cannot vote for either of the candidates because both parties have pro abortion candidates and to vote for either is a mortal sin. So I have no dog in theis fight, just wanting to see if people have reasonable answers to a question that confuses me.

Update 3: Hussein,
Thank you for the video link. It supported my fears that the struggle of the civil rights movement will be set back 40 years by the election of a racist president Like Obama. Of all the charges against Obama it is clear that he supported racism in his admiration of Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan. He... show more Hussein,

Thank you for the video link. It supported my fears that the struggle of the civil rights movement will be set back 40 years by the election of a racist president Like Obama. Of all the charges against Obama it is clear that he supported racism in his admiration of Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan. He spent 20 years listening to such rhetoric in His Church. One must at least acknowledge his approval of what they teach and as the father of mixed race children it scares me to think that such a person could be elected in the US.

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Best Answer: Perhaps its just like when Jimmy Carter was elected. We had 8 years of Republicans, we had seen things get a little worse, things went to hell in a hand basket for the last 2 years which is largely the Congress and democrat's fault..but no one wants to hear it. They've been hearing to much junk, too much lies...they want change......exactly the same crap the democrats said before Jimmy, and 30 years later thier crap tactics still seem to fool the fools.
Not to mention Obama has run just as negative ads as McCain..but at least McCain sponsored ads have a thread of truth to all of them. Obama's been flat out lying, taking people completely out of context and running all spanish ads in 4 key states.
Obama always has been outspending McCain 3 to 1 in money on the adds, so in sheer quantity Obama has more negative ads than McCain. Personally I didn't know holding someone's failed record up for display was an attack...some of us call that accountability.
Ya, I now...that nasty A word that democrat politicians hate.
But that's it in a nut shell.
I've been told this is the dumbest generation in America...and by the large support for Obama, I think i'm convinced.
No one every painted McCain as a knight in shining armor and the saviour of all our problems, but he's a heck lot better than a socialist that tells people straight up he's going to rob them of thier money and "spread it around".

McCain is not having a hard time. Remember in the 2000 election, G.W. was down by double digits in the polls going into the end of October. Don't count McCain out yet. These pollsters know how to poll samples that will give them the results they want. Never trust any poll.

Democrat Maverick...if "a mind is a terrible thing to waste", then what is your excuse?

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oh boo, like you should really vote for obama because the celebrities tell us too, and plus he is smiley!

The question should be why is Obama having such a difficult time separating himself sufficiently from McCain considering the economic climate and public perception that the Republicans are responsible for the mess!

I think that the tipping point in this race has proven to be the economy. Poor economic conditions reflect poorly on the incumbent party, of which Sen. McCain is a member. When economic conditions are this bad, and they really hit home with the voters, they usually will overshadow most other issues, social issues, character issues, even foreign policy.